It's not in the Emhar kit, but I noticed pictures of Mark IV tanks which have a wedge-shaped panel with two sloped sides and two stright sides.? The longer straight side sits atop the rear box just behind the small door on top, while the small straight side rests near the top of the rear panel.? What is the...
Hello again to all. I am now putting out felers on the subject of modeling three little known items of equipment that were widely used in the German Army of WWI; The Grossesflammenwerfer Static Flamethrower emplacement, and the FIeld Electrical power generator used by the pioneers, and finally Del...
Now that the oil drum has been sorted so to the above. I think it was used by all nations. What colour would it have been painted.On many dioramas they all appear to be a very rusty colour.Since they would have been supplied "new" any ideas on the colour????
It seems we might have to rethink the matter of caterpillar tracks. From Popular Science, December 1918: "Their invention predates that of the land caterpillar by many years. The first water caterpillar on record was invented by Desblancs in 1782 and was propelled by a steam engine. In the Uni...
?I had a great opertunity to visit with MG David Zabeki today at the Association of the U.S. Army Confernence in Washington, DC.? MG Zabeki wrote Steel Wind which is an excellent English language work detailing Georg Bruchmuellers artillery fire planning for the 1918 Offensive. This work is largel...
As a newbie, hope it's OK to ask some potentially dumb questions here. Anyone have solid info or?quality drawing of MK1 female sponson? Is there a difference between MK1 - MK2 female sponsons? I'd like to get this right. I can see the outer angle is for a better field of fire (with 2 m/c guns) but all MK1 dw...
Yes I have a Roden 1920 pattern Rolls Royce British AC too, with no definite project for it yet.? I was thinking of making it one of the cars sent to Ireland, but used in combat during the Irish Civil War before it gets turned over to Irish custody.? I have no idea what it would look like though.
Goodevening, I bought the Roden "Rolls Royce Pattern 1920" Scale 1/35 (scale 1/72 or 1/76 are becoming to small for my eyes)?and I'd like to build it as the AAR2 "Sliabh na mBan" . A few questions: Is the grey color on the photo of the surviving/restaured vehicle in Ireland corre...
I've been trying to put the rear box together (dry fit) on the Emhar 1/35 Mark tank, but cannot for the life of me figure out the proper way it goes together!? Please tell me the right way!
I am grateful to a friend for the following message relating to an artefact that was shown on?the BBC TV programme Antiques Roadshow on Sunday, October 5th: There was a guy whose grandfather designed the tracks for the first operational tank. He had a beautiful silver model, commissioned by Churchi...
Hi all, one of the forums most knowledgable members firsttankcrews (aka Steven Pope) is giving a talk in Lincoln this Wednesday evening. ??'Cocktails at Courcelette - The Crewmen of 1st Section C Company HSMGC ? Forthcoming events can be found with this link http://www.friends-of-the-lincoln-...
Something I've never seen pictured or described. What were the seating arrangements, if any, for the gunners in the Whippet? Seats provided or standing room only?
? A couple of new 1/72 models of tank projects: Frot-Laffly Landship Burstyn tank Free download at www.papermodelers.com - downloadable if a forum member. Otherwise ask me. The designer is also working on a Mendeleyev tank. Regards, Charlie
I wondered who makes 1/35 WW1 figures.? Emhar does, but their quality is reportedly terrible, and ICM does, and their quality is quite good (I have some).? But I was hoping for more selection.? Wild goose chase?
Does anyone know of a set of scale drawings for this machine ? I know that there was a model constructed by someone in France, alas, I don't speak (or write) French - (a fact that I really should have taken into consideration before visitng there a few years back !) I have saved off the in-progress shots of...
Since some months I reworked and enlarged my central Diorama I showed on this site some time ago. It depicts the German Trenchlines on the Westernfront in late 1918, when US and some French Forces try to break through the German lines, but are repelled by the massive counterattack wich beside the A7V a...
I visited Les Invalides last week to take some photos of the 1/5 model of the 42cm Big Bertha Howitzer.? To my shock, some pieces are now missing.? I have attached a photo of the model in 2010 - note the round attached to the crane - and one of it last week (2011).? This is sad, because the model is one of the la...
Hello all, I am currently in the process of building a small diorama of a section of British trench, if anyone is interested i will post some photos? As you all well know large ammounts of the time soldiers in the trenches were just sitting around doing odd jobs etc, so i am looking for suitable figures th...
